Re: metadata plugins (was Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion)

Łukasz Mierzwa
2006-08-01T15:33:35Z

Dnia Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:33:56 +0200, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
napisał:

> In other words, if a filesystem wants to do something fancy, it needs to
> do so WITH THE VFS LAYER, not as some plugin architecture of its own. We
> already have exactly the plugin interface we need, and it literally _is_
> the VFS interfaces - you can plug in your own filesystems with
> "register_filesystem()", which in turn indirectly allows you to plug in
> your per-file and per-directory operations for things like lookup etc.

What fancy (beside cryptocompress) does reiser4 do now?
Can someone point me to a list of things that are required by kernel
mainteiners to merge reiser4 into vanilla?
I feel like I'm getting lost with current reiser4 status and things that
are need to be done.

Łukasz Mierzwa